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:)
Another Microsoft Innovation?
I like PDF, myself, but it's not as good a generic document format as it 
is an output format. We are a technical organisation and require a lot of 
our document formats including such things as automatically generated 
tables, and revision marking between different document versions.






Sarah Bernadette Kelly <sbk98 at uow.edu.au>
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I have one thing to say. Rich Text Format. (rtf)

:)

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 ben.carlyle at invensys.com wrote:

> On a corporate scale it's a very difficult thing to break the mould. 
This 
> has a strong affect on business within the corporation, and due to the 
> wide use of Microsoft applications it applies heavily to education and 
> thus to individuals even outside this structure. Without a clear 
> alternative to what really is a feature-rich Microsoft business product, 

> the entire industry will continue to be a difficult nut to crack. Free 
> alternatives will only survive in niches not under the influcence of 
this 
> global phenomenon.



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